Page "Abraham Lincoln" Paragraph 29

On October 16, 1854, in his " Peoria Speech ", Lincoln declared his opposition to slavery, which he repeated en route to the presidency.

Speaking in his Kentucky accent, with a very powerful voice, he said the Kansas Act had a " declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery.

I cannot but hate it.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself.

I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ..."